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Jenny and Mark Sanford will soon be divorced. A family court judge in Charleston has granted the divorce, making it final in mid-March. See FindLaw’s Courtside to get a look at the Sanford divorce decree. Jenny Sanford filed for divorce in December after suffering humiliation when her husband, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, was caught cheating on her with an Argentine mistress. Governor Sanford was not in attendance at the hearing but he was represented by his attorneys....

Stan Lee has created a lot of iconic characters over the years – some good, some bad. But in a recent scandal out of Chicago, the Marvel Comics legend is the one at the center of the story, and he is certainly not depicted as the superhero. Rather, Lee is being sued by a massage therapist for sexual assault. Emboldened by the #MeToo movement, she says she overcame her fears and decided to come forward....

An Ohio man has made a video confession in which he takes responsibility for a drunken driving crash that killed another driver. He allegedly made the video to face the consequences for his actions. Matthew Cordle, 22, admits in the video to “making a mistake” when he got behind the wheel after going bar-hopping with friends in June. He recounted the tragic night when he drove into oncoming traffic and fatally struck 61-year-old Vincent Canzani, reports The Associated Press....

By now most people are familiar with quite possibly the most famous person to ever be convicted of tax evasion, Al Capone. Capone was a Chicago mob boss during Prohibition who, despite ordering the deaths of dozens, was sentenced to just eleven years in prison on federal income tax evasion charges in 1931. Slightly less well-known is Salvatore “Sallie” Demeo, described by the New York Post as a “Genovese soldier” and charged with tax evasion related to real estate deals....

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against late “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of the passenger in the car that Dunn was driving when he got into a fatal accident, gossip website TMZ reports. Dunn was reportedly driving his Porsche at 132 mph in June 2011 when he lost control and struck a tree in rural Pennsylvania. Both Dunn and his passenger, Zachery Hartwell, were killed....

A “sensitive” law-enforcement device aimed at stopping terrorists led police to pull over a radioactive man who’d just undergone a medical procedure. A Connecticut state trooper conducted the traffic stop after a passing car set off a radiation detector in the officer’s cruiser, the Connecticut Post reports. But instead of finding hazardous materials, the officer found a perplexed off-duty firefighter. “I asked the officer, ‘What seems to be the problem?’” firefighter Mike Apatow told the Post....

Virginia Valdez, 69, of Palm Springs, was arrested after an altercation with her husband. It seems it got so heated that she attempted to cut off his penis with a pair of scissors. Luckily for her husband, Valdez’s dismembering efforts failed. Her husband was treated at a local hospital for a “non-life-threatening wound in the genital area” and has been released, according to police. Valdez’s motivations for the crime are still unclear, though police say that the couple had a long-standing marital dispute....

One change in overdraft fees and bank regulation in favor of consumers down, and about 100 still to go. The Federal Reserve announced last Thursday that new rules concerning overdraft protection charges plaguing consumers’ bank balances are set to go into mandatory effect for new cards on July, 1, 2010. As discussed in previous Common Law posts, consumers have numerous concerns with overdraft. Some of those we’ve previously addressed include:...

The number of individuals and businesses filing for bankruptcy increased almost 29 percent based on a comparison of consecutive twelve-month periods, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. There were 967,831 bankruptcy filings in U.S. courts over a 12-month period ending on June 30, 2008, representing a 28.9% increase in filings compared with the previous 12-month period. Bankruptcy filings by individuals totaled 934,009 (up 28....

Given that extreme corporal punishment in school is generally a thing of the past, the idea of a Bronx teacher, belt in hand, smacking two elementary school students is pretty preposterous. But it apparently happened at Benjamin Franklin Public School in New York when, faced with a student-on-student brawl, teacher Pedro Molano allegedly decided to use his belt instead of his words. He’s now being charged with assault, but appears not to have lost his job....

With their close association with alcohol, it’s hard to remember that DUI and DWI cover a lot more than just drunk driving. It’s possible to be “driving under the influence” of any number of things, and “driving while intoxicated” doesn’t specify the intoxicant. And between relaxed marijuana restrictions and the spike in prescription drug use, police need to be on the lookout for drivers who’ve consumed something other than “just a couple beers....

Ever use Facebook at work even when you weren’t supposed to? You may not have to worry about it – at least not criminally. The Ninth Circuit has clarified the application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to individuals who breach company computer policies. Employees who do so with the intent to defraud may be criminally charged. Employees who breach access policies for nonfraudulant, personal reasons do not violate the law....

On Wednesday, a Washington D.C. Federal District Court dismissed all claims by the fathers of two Guantanamo detainees who hung themselves. According to the report by the Courthouse News Service, the fathers of Yasser Al-Zahrani, Jr., a Saudi Arabian citizen, and Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed Al-Salami Jr., a Yemeni citizen, brought claims against the U.S. Government for alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Federal Tort Claims Act....

Ever had a celebrity’s picture pop up while you were scrolling through Tinder? Did you swipe right? Or, did you automatically swipe left because you assumed it was a fake account? With Tinder’s new verified accounts feature, you can be assured that the girl that looks like Hillary Duff really is the pop star, and not some fake. Celebrities are just like us. They need love, and they sometimes resort to dating apps to find it....

Michael Jordan now wants to get $10 million dollars from two separate Chicago grocery stores that he claims used his name without his permission in a grocery store ad. According to Yahoo Sports, the former basketball great is suing because he claims that Dominick’s Finer Foods and Jewel Food Stores both used his name in order to drive customers to their stores….but they failed to get his permission when they ran the ads for the commemorative Sports Illustrated issue, “Jordan: A Hall of Fame Career....

Sam Donaldson, the veteran ABC news anchor and political correspondent, got pulled over for a DUI earlier this month. Donaldson was driving in the beach town of Lewes, Delaware, on Dec. 1, when police noticed that he was driving on the shoulder of the road. After a field sobriety test, which Donaldson failed, he was arrested for a suspected DUI. Donaldson was later charged with driving under the influence and released to await his court date....

Thousands of people are spending weeks, months, even years in Rikers in New York City for non-violent crimes, just because they couldn’t pay their bail. According to the New York Criminal Justice Agency, only 12 percent of defendants in New York City can pay bail. As part of a growing movement calling for bail reform after Kalief Browder’s suicide, New York City recently announced that its judges will start offering bail alternatives to certain offenders....

The adoptive parents of a child born with male and female organs say South Carolina mutilated their son by choosing a gender and having his male genitalia surgically removed. The surgery took place when the child was 16 months old and a ward of the state, according to the attached lawsuit filed by the parents against three doctors and several members of the South Carolina Department of Social Services. Lawyers for the parents said the complaints filed in federal and state courts are the first lawsuits of their kind filed in the United States....

Some mistakes might have been made during an investigation into the Patti LaBelle airport attack. Richard King, 23, is now suing the singer, alleging that he was beaten by her security guards on her command. LaBelle’s bodyguards had originally told Houston police that King was intoxicated and he instigated the attack by throwing the first punch, reports Fox News. King was named as a suspect in the original police investigation....

Add another sexual assault lawsuit on to the docket for Harvey Weinstein. Paz de la Huerta, an actor, is suing Harvey Weinstein in a California court for sexual assault, sexual battery, and emotional distress. She is also including the Four Seasons and the now-defunct Weinstein Company as defendants in her suit. Paz de la Huerta claims the raped her twice at her apartment in New York City, exposed himself to her at a Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills, and then told others in the entertainment industry not to do business with her after she refused his advances at the hotel....